spernat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sperno, spernere, sprevi, spretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scorn, despise, spurn;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...viderit me, atque eius elegantia meam extemplo speciem spernat. Milph. Non faciet, bonum animum habe. ~ Pyrg. Vt ipsa..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...limasset, a radicibusnon euertisset scelere funesto domum."Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim,quandoquidem et illi peccant..." - M
Liber Primus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...Romano est, qui Ennii Medeam aut Antiopam Pacuvii spernat aut reiciat, quod se isdem Euripidis fabulis delectari dicat..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...praesens in tempus omittat, hoc amet, hoc spernat promissi carminis auctor. In uerbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis dixeris..."